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Struggling to import a STEP file...
ryan_henning
Member Posts: 6 ✭
I have a STEP file. Here's how I obtained my STEP file (in case that helps): I downloaded the STL file from [1], and then I used FreeCAD to convert it from STL to STEP. The resulting STEP file is 14 MB. (?)
Anywho, I'm now trying to get that STEP file imported into OnShape. It uploads, and it shows up in "My Documents", but two things are wrong:
1. When I open the imported file (by clicking on it from the "My Documents" page), no shape shows up.
2. When I click the "Imports" button at the top right of the screen, it shows my file's import status as "Importing" rather than "Imported". Is that a problem? Does that just mean I need to wait longer? (It's been about 15 minutes already.)
Thanks, you guys rock! I'm loving OnShape and this is the first real issue I've run into. My goal here is to continue using OnShape but to incorporate this STEP file into what I'm building in OnShape right now.
[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13038
Anywho, I'm now trying to get that STEP file imported into OnShape. It uploads, and it shows up in "My Documents", but two things are wrong:
1. When I open the imported file (by clicking on it from the "My Documents" page), no shape shows up.
2. When I click the "Imports" button at the top right of the screen, it shows my file's import status as "Importing" rather than "Imported". Is that a problem? Does that just mean I need to wait longer? (It's been about 15 minutes already.)
Thanks, you guys rock! I'm loving OnShape and this is the first real issue I've run into. My goal here is to continue using OnShape but to incorporate this STEP file into what I'm building in OnShape right now.
[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13038
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What happens when you import a file from the document list page is that we create a new document and put your source file in a tab. You can open this immediately. Sometime later, where "later" is usually a few seconds but can be several minutes, the translated part studios and assemblies appear in the document. 15 minutes seems like a very long time. Looking at the logs, your last translation brought in a model with 5810 entities over 26 minutes. That's a lot of entities to process. Other folks in the forum here may have suggestions on how you can generate a simpler (cleaner) STEP file before importing into Onshape.
-John